How long does it take to read Moby Dick?
Herman Melville, Nigel Cliff
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Nigel Cliff takes about 14 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2016. 784 pages, about 215,600 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each.
Subjects: Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, sea stories, Captain Ahab (Fictitious character), Fiction, Whaling ships
